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having left sixth form and being generally useless all-round i'm sorting everything out way too late so generally have no idea the kinda thing i'm supposed to write.

if i'm applying to a pretty varied range of courses, how do i make it relevent / decent for them all? there's some stuff that'd be really useful for my first choice but completely pointless for the others.

a lot of your personal statement is guff about being 'passionate' about the course. i'd try and find some objective impressive things which might apply loosely to all. like, you say you've got some useful stuff for one, could you warp this to make it seem applicable to all, using it to promote yourself rather than your relationship with the course.

History / Politics / International Relations etc, but even that isn't ideal. If it's more vocational courses it's going to be pretty difficult to do it and sound committed. You don't want to put something down if it is totally irrelevant to the other courses, so you'll have to find some common ground for sure.

that i'd absolutely love to do, but there are pretty much no other courses in the country... so including learning basic ukrainian, 2nd generation, having been there, yadda yadda yadda would be irrelevant for everything else.

i could make the other options, say, russian, etc. but generally not half as interested.

that should be totally fine, because they'll be expecting you to apply for different ones - at most universities you'll do at least two languages, so say Russian & Croatian, and they know there aren't so many universities offering them.

if you don't want to do other Eastern European languages then there's not much point of applying, but if you want them as a reserve, I'd just focus on making your statement about Eastern Europe (though include something about being especially interested in Ukraine).